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Assigning primary and alias status

One way to resolve a conflict between two DOIs with identical metadata is to assign primary status to one of them and make the other one an alias.

For example, if the metadata for 10.1103/PhysRev.69.674 and 10.1103/PhysRev.69.674.2 are the same, you might assign make 10.1103/PhysRev.69.674 primary. In this case, metadata queries that match both DOIs will resolve to 10.1103/PhysRev.69.674, and DOI queries for either 10.1103/PhysRev.69.674 or 10.1103/PhysRev.69.674.2 will return results.

You can assign primary status to DOIs in conflict one by one using the system interface, or you can assign primary or alias status to multiple DOIs by uploading a .txt file.